Jolly Fellows

Merry Fellows was the first Soviet musical comedy. Set in Odessa and Moscow in the 1930s. Shepherd Kostya Potekhin is mistaken for an international concert star. He falls in love with Anyuta and plays the "star" for her. In a cascade of comic musical numbers he becomes the leader of a Jazz-Band and gives a hilarious show at the Odessa Music Hall. Now he is destined to perform at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.

• Release date
• December 9, 1934
• Runtime
• 96 min
• Genres
• Music, Comedy
• Director
• Grigori Aleksandrov

Cast

Leonid Utyosov Kostya Potekhin Lyubov Orlova Anyuta, the housemaid Mariya Strelkova Yelena, child of the Foreign Trade Union Fyodor Kurikhin Mortician Emmanuil Geller Music-hall audience member (uncredited) Yelena Tyapkina Anyuta's stepmother Niki Otto Musician, fight instigator Arnold Arnold Fraschini, the conductor from Paraguay